Biography

René Thom was innate around Montbéliard, France. He was educated at Lycée Saint-Louis and École Normale Supérieure and went on to teach at Grenoble and Strasbourg.

When he is virtually all known to the public for his development of catastrophe theory between 1968 and 1972, his earlier act get on differential topology. It caring what come today known as Thom spaces, characteristic classes, cobordism theory, and a Thom transversality theorem. He so come in singularity theory, of which catastrophe theory is just of these aspect.

René Thom died in October 25, 2002, in the village touching Paris.

Bibliography
"Semiophysics: A Sketch" (1990) Structural Stability & Morphogenesis (1972)

Reference
Martin Weil, French Mathematician René Thom Dies, Washington Post, November 17 (2002), p. C10